Loyalty At It's Finest: Penguin Swims 5,000 Miles Every Year To Visit Brazilian Man Who Once Saved His Life!

Meet the loyal penguin who travels 5,000 miles every year to visit the man who saved him from the brink of death.



Retired bricklayer and part-time fisherman Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, found the animal back in 2011 when he washed up on a beach, starving and covered in oil.



Joao, who named the penguin Dindim after discovering him in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, decided to take the creature home and nurse it back to health.



Once Dindim was well again, Joao released him back into the wild - and didn't expect to see the penguin ever again. But just a few months later, the South American Magellanic penguin returned to the beach and followed Joao home.



According to Globo TV, Dindim spends eight months with Joao and the rest of the year breeding off the coast of Argentina and Chile - 5,000 miles away.

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